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Challenge and Inspire Yourself with ‘Art After Dark’

Contemporary art is intended to challenge our perceptions and encourage us to think in new ways, so if you’re up to the challenge, make a trip to the MAC. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) will be presenting a special exhibition of the work of 23 artists from the UTD/SouthSide Artist Residency. This exhibition is titled "Conspicuous Production: The First Two Years of the UTD/SouthSide Artist Residency." The exhibition will be on view throughout The MAC’s Main Galleries and New Works Space from June 25 through August 1, 2005.

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is a non-profit contemporary visual and performing arts space. The MAC offers opportunities for experimentation and for the presentation of new art in all disciplines, and provides a forum for critical dialog between emerging and established artists and their audiences. The MAC supports the artist's role in society, cultivates that relation through education and innovative programming, and stands as an advocate for creative freedom.           

The residency's purpose is to serve as an incubator for talent in the Metroplex community. Visiting artists, curators and critics from other parts of the country and the world are brought in to develop a rich mixture of disciplines and ambitions.

For example, artist Ryan Fitzer uses abstract ceramics to evoke emotional trauma through sensuous surfaces, whereas Misty Keasler’s large-format color photographs belie the poverty, injustice, and social critique that they depict in Romanian orphanages, Guatemalan garbage dumps and Japanese love hotels.

Saskia Jorda makes intricate color pencil drawings of butterfly genitalia from obscure scientific publications, portraying a skewed view of eroticism and Baseera Khan Khan uses a layering of photographic transfers, drawings and cut-outs to convey conflict within the areas of identity and culture. Titus O’Brien works through painting and sculpture which fuse Western popular culture and Eastern Zen practices, and Paul Slocum’s work transforms obsolete computer equipment into interactive musical instruments, sound and light installations, and abstract video output. {place Paul_Slocum_Live_Atari_Projection photo here}

Location and contact information:
The MAC is located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, Texas and gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday 11am. - 9 pm. Admission is free to the reception and exhibition.

For additional information, contact Sara Luxen at 214-953-1212.

Or visit their website at www.the-mac.org

Edited by Erika Wright

Photo 1 by Baseera Khan - "Born into Song and Dance"
Photo 2 by Paul Slocum - "Live Atari Projection"

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